There is a longstanding debate about whether traditional grading—letter grades based on a student’s content knowledge, classroom behavior, and extra credit—appropriately measures student success.

To offer students extra credit—that is the question. In fact, it’s an age-old question, one that some systems, liked standards-based grading, claim to answer by completely eliminating it. Personally, ...

A team of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, San Diego have discovered positive uses for AI and extra credit assignments to help improve ...